A FEW WORDS ON CHARLES CALEB COLTON....WHOSE WORDS OF WISDOM...WE SHARE WITH YOU TODAY....... Coltons books, including collections of epigrammatic aphorisms and short essays on conduct, though now almost forgotten, had a phenomenal popularity in their day. Toward the end of 1820, Colton published Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words, addressed to those who think., in a small cheap edition. It attracted attention and praise, however, and five additional printings were issued in 1821. Lacon, Vol. II appeared in 1822. In 1822, Colton re-published a previous work on Napoleon, with extensive additions, under the title of The Conflagration of Moscow. In Paris he printed An Ode on the Death of Lord Byron for private circulation and continued to write. At his death he left an unpublished poem of 600 lines called Modern Antiquity. In the twentieth century and to the present day Colton has been read most frequently perhaps in quotation books, including Bartletts Familiar Quotations, where many of his aphorisms have been preserved. One of Coltons most famous quotes: Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery.
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